If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

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.

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.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

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.

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.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

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

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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 we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.