I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

The only way your powers can become great is by exerting them outside the circle of your own narrow, special, selfish interests. And that is the reason of Christianity. Christ came into the world to save others, not to save himself; and no man is a true Christian who does not think constantly of how he can lift his brother, how he can assist his friend, how he can enlighten mankind, how he can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which he lives.

The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.

Men grow by having responsibility laid upon them.

There's not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else's brains.