“It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.”

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.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

A man’s sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

One thing that concerns me is that today’s young women don’t seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

Voting is the cornerstone of our democracy and the fundamental right upon which all our civil liberties rest.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.