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

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

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

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.

The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms.