Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It’s our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I’ve thought everyone is a teacher.
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it’s very limited in what it can do logically. It’s an existential experience – there and then gone.
When I learn something new – and it happens every day – I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.