I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

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.

I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey's end like men with a quiet conscience.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.