Words are the mind's wings, are they not?

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between Tweedledee and Tweedledum. We elect expensive masters to do our work for us, and then blame them because they work for themselves and for their class.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

I cannot but say a word and look my disapproval when I hear that my country is spending millions for war and war engines-more, I have heard, than twice as much as the entire public school system costs the nation.