True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

Things that make us alike are finer and stronger than the things that make us different.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

Every time before you speak, look in the mirror and be sure not to copy someone else.

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.

The melancholia of everything completed!

God almost never calls His people to a fair fight.

She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began