When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow.

When all else fails, men turn to reason.

The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.