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.
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It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...
Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
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.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?
