Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

The government should cultivate the view also among the propertyless classes of the population, those who are the most numerous and the least educated, that the state is not only an institution of necessity but also of welfare. By recognizable and direct advantages they must be led to look upon the state not as an agency devised solely for the protection of the better-situated classes of society but also as one serving their needs and interests.

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.

The nation that has the schools has the future.