Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.