The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.