Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Ideas without action are useless.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?