"That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.”

“What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?”

“The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.”

“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”

“Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.”

“Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.”

“It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve its prosperity; how many planets will a country like India require?”

“There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”

“Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.”