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.

The marketplace is democratic.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

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.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

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