The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit

For Myself It Would Be Most Irksome To Be Ruled By A Bevy Of Platonic Guardians, Even If I Knew How To Choose Them, Which I Assuredly Do Not.

Words Are Not Pebbles In Alien Juxtaposition.

The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Which Is Not Too Sure That It Is Right; The Spirit Of Liberty Is The Spirit Which Seeks To Understands The Minds Of Other Men And Women.

Words Are Chameleons, Which Reflect The Color Of Their Environment.

It Was Not The Violence Of Our Enemies [in World War I] That Would Undo Us, I Thought, But Our Own Spiritual Weakness, The Shallowness Of Our Convictions.