I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

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

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

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

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

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