Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
