A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.