Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.