The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

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

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

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

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

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

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.