Great Throughts Treasury

"Writers are the engineers of human souls."

"He who wishes to lead a movement must conduct a fight on two fronts – against those who lag behind and those who rush ahead."

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

"It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes."

"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

"History shows that there are no invincible armies."

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."