If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Do not, I beseech you be troubled by the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistake the hour of the night: it is already morning.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.