Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

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.

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.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

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