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

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out.

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

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.

Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

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.