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

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.

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

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

The arts equally have distinct departments, and unless photography has its own possibilities of expression, separate from those of the other arts, it is merely a process, not an art.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.

We had a lot of confidence that there was going to be a successful mission. We weren't off on some suicide effort, certainly [with Friendship 7].

Heaven is important, but its not the end of the world.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

The flower fades and dies; but he who wears the flower has not to mourn for it for ever.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.