I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.