1. “It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.”
2. “All achievement should be measured in human hapiness.”
3. “It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.”
4. “The facts we see depend on where we are paced and the habits of our eyes.”
5. “A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.”
6. “Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.”
7. “Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.”
8. “Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.”
9. “The news and the truth are not the same thing.”
10. “When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.”
11. “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
12. “Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.”
13. “It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.”
14. “All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.”
15. “We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.”
16. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
17. “Life is an irreversible process and for its future can never be a repetition of the past.”
18. “The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.”
19. “We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones”
20. “It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.”
