Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

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.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

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

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

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.