...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Correct morality can only be derived from what man is — not from what do-gooders and well-meaning aunt Nellies would like him to be.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.