Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

Scratch a pessimist and you will often find a defender of privilege.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.