“The job of the evangelist is never easy.”

Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.

It’s no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

The easiest thing to exist, love. The most rare feeling, love. Irony?

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

In my dreams you conjure me like a spell in the night. Let us haunt one another with uneasy peace, and die burning alive.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

The easiest way to a happy life is; instead of making others lose, make them win.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.