Pay beforehand was never well served.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

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

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.