Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors

When there's only one race, and that's mankind, we shall be free.

To forget one's ancestor's is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

It would indeed be the ultimate tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest, to make money they don't want, to buy things they don't need, to impress people they dislike