" But I hit upon much simpler plan I gather together all chindren in my locality and asked them to volunteer two or three hours labour of a morning when they had no school, this they willingly agreed to do. I promised to bless them, give them as reward used postage stamp which I had collected"  -  Mahathma Gandhi  (1896)

Among other things good and bad that modern civilisation had produced, surely the postal system which covers the whole world, is one of its most benficial activities. It affects every individual where ever he may be in the wide world connecting him with millions of others. That connecting link is the postal system which has grown from age to age, till it is what we see today" - Jawaharlal Nehru as a foreword to Mulk Raj Anand's book Story of the Post Office. 

"Stamp Collecting dispels boredom, enlarges our vision, broadens our knowledge, makes us better citizens and in innumerable ways, enriches our lives" - President Roosevelt

"For seventeen years he did nothing at all, but kill animals and stick in stamps" - Sir Harold Nicholson (1886-1968) in Diaries and Letters about King George V.

"The stamps of the world are powerful object lessons in the eternal hunger of men for knowledge and news about their fellowmen. They are pictorial history  of all the arts and sciences and human progress. Since the earliest civilisation." -  U.S. President  - Dwight Einehower.

"Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" - Greek historian Herodotus wrote about the Persian messengers in his history of the Persian Wars. This is inscribed on a stone face of the New York post office building. 

" Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste". - Irish poet and  playwright W. B. Yeats (1865-1939

"All science is either Physics or stamp collecting." - Erenst Rutherford physicist and Noble Laureate

"  A stamp is a tiny, flimsy thing,   No thicker than a beetle's wing:   And yet it will roam the world for you,   Exactly where you tell it to"  -    E.V.Lucas.