In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.