When elephants fight, ants get killed.

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

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.

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

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