An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Love dies only when growth stops.

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.