Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

Now I've gone for too longLiving like I'm not aliveSo I'm going to start over tonightBeginning with you and I

If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to.

I have no plans to have any other home than Moscow. However, I love to travel, and I'm very comfortable in New York. In many ways, it reminds me of Moscow in its energy and drive.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.