The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Hendrik Willem van LoonThe world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.
Hendrik Willem van LoonIn such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
Hendrik Willem van LoonThe foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.
Hendrik Willem van Loon