If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?