Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.