We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.

The marketplace is democratic.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.