Hannah Arendt

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

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

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.