Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
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.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
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I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
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.
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.
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.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
