“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”

“Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace. ”

“Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.”

“Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.”

“We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.”

“For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.”

“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. ”