"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."

"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."

"In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own."

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

"The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."