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 perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

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.

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.