Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.