Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.