It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.