It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

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.

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.

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.