No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.