Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.