William Ewart Gladstone

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

So, sit down strikes in the 1930’s, organization of women’s consciousness-raising groups in the ’60’s and ’70’s, anti-war activism. I mean, all of these things work. They have to be done of course. They don’t happen by themselves.

The internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?

I mean, any issue of any complexity is going to have some diversity of opinion. But when you get a unanimous vote to kill the Iranian deal or the Affordable Care Act or whatever the next thing may be, you know you’re not dealing with a political party.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

At the time of the First World War there was a fringe of dissidents, Bertrand Russell for example, who were in jail; Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknicht, in jail; Eugene Debs, in jail. That’s the standard picture throughout history. We find it right now.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

Under the Rule of Law…the individual is free to pursue his personal ends and desires, certain that the powers of government will not be used deliberately to frustrate his efforts.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

[on Donald Trump] seems determined to add to the dangers [in the global situation] by recklessly escalating the confrontation with North Korea, unilaterally launching missile strikes on Syria, opposing President Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran and backing a new nuclear arms race.