If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.