It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?