Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

To understand is to perceive patterns.