If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.

No one supposes that the government of the United States is supreme, beyond the sphere plainly defined by the constitution: Neither does any one deny that the State is supreme within its proper sphere of action.

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.