When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.