In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. Wells

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells

The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. Wells

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells