The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Ideas control the world.