The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

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

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.