How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.

What one has to do usually can be done.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Courage is exhilarating.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.