Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

It is either Christ or chaos.