The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.