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What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.