I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by, reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.

No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Different strokes for different folks.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.