The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances, but circumstances must be governed by man.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.