Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'