A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

It is easier to hate an enemy with much good in him than one who is all bad. We cannot hate those we despise.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.