As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else.

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.