 The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous. |
| The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. |
| Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. |
| Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit. |
| Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself. |
| A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. |
| Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. |
| The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly. |
| The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. |
| Citizenship consists in the service of the country. |
| Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems. |
| There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear. |
| It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive. |
| Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. |
| The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. |
| Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. |
| I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. |
| Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. |
| Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. |
| Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. |
