Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Sleep that masters all.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence. . . . I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Only 3 things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and under performance. Everything else requires leadership.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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.

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.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

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.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.