Free men stick their necks out.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy let us enjoy it.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

To be too dissatisfied with ourselves is a weakness. To be too satisfied with ourselves is a stupidity.

There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.