Charles Peguy

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.