I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

I think there's nothing more dangerous than mislearning lessons of history, and we do it perpetually.

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

Any types of auditions will be posted in trade magazines.

Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.

I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.