The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

No man is fit to hold office who isn't perfectly willing to leave it at any time...

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you want, but to have the power to do what is right.