Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?