There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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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.
Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
