The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.