All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

It's not only the politician that can govern and lead a nation

Politicians are salespeople. Instead of rotisserie ovens they are selling this idea of preemptive war or social-security reforms.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.