The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.