Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense merit was that it enabled a large constituency to exert indirect power, and thus made possible the distribution of political responsibility throughout the great states of modern times.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.