The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

... orders come from the work, not work from the orders.

We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.

The state accumulates moral power only through the spiritual activity of their citizens.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.