“Ultimately, what matters in determining the validity of a nation is the will of its inhabitants to live and strive together.”

“I invite everyone here and all Thai people to share my determination and work together, each according to his status and duty, with the nation’s prosperity and the people’s happiness as the ultimate goals.”

“All presentation, all demonstration—and the presentation of thought is demonstration—has, according to its original determination—and this is all that matters to us—the cognitive activity of the other person as its ultimate aim.”

“It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”

“Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.”

“What fixes and preserves a nation’s language, as well as its sciences and its history, is simply the strength of its political power, accompanied by the happy welfare and leisure of its inhabitants.”

“A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.”

“A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.”

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”

“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.”