A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.
A man who tries to please all men by weakening his position or compromising his beliefs, in the end has neither position nor beliefs.
A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.
As against the 'invisible hand' of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.
Democracy demands that elected members be able to realize fully the role for which they have been chosen.
I must say that 'Give Peace a Chance' has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt. (on the United States)
People are more interested in ideas than dress.
Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.
The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.
The community of man should be treated in the same way you would treat your community of brothers or fellow citizens.
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.
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