Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Fear is choosing the safe course

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.