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

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

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 most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

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.