“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.”

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

The future has to be lived before it can be written about.

Slogans are apt to petrify man’s thinking. Every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throw words at each other.

When you imitate the enemy’s tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

To be successful in life what you need is education.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life’s course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.

We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

So long as freedom from hunger is only half achieved, so long as two thirds of the nations have food deficits, no citizen, no nation can afford to be satisfied.

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.