Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.