There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

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

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.

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.

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

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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.

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.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

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.

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

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

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.