“Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".”

“Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.”

“Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.”

“Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.”

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

“Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”