It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.