I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
I sometimes think that Thomas Cook should be numbered among the secular saints. He took travel from the privileged and gave it to the people.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
The writer is all alone.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
