Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.

The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.