If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!