The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.