Great Throughts Treasury

"The most vital test of a man’s character is not how he behaves after success, but how he sustains defeat."

"A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip."

"The antithesis of democracy is class dictatorship, whether by groups of bankers, investors, managers, politicians, lawyers or union members. Over a considerable part of the world the unspeakable doctrine is being preached that the ideal of a democratic State is a snare and a delusion. A politician if he denies the existence of the essentials of democracy and denies it in such a way as to create class feeling, is not working in the interest of democracy even though he protests to the high heavens that that is his objective."