The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

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

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

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.