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To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

For solitude is a virtue with us, as a sublime bent and bias to purity, which divines that in the contact of man and man--in society--it must be unavoidably impure.

One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time.

One must not avoid one's tests, although they constitute perhaps the most dangerous game one can play, and are in the end tests made only before ourselves and before no other judge.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart

A gloomy sensation of agonising, everlasting solitude and remoteness, took conscious form in his soul.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.

If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

With foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and will be overcome.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Finally we must have courage and self-confidence to cling to our own methods and conceptions of human society. After all, the greatest danger that can befall us in coping with this problem of Soviet communism, is that we shall allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are coping.

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.