The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.