Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

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

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

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.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.