Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

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

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

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

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.