In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

We are the hero of our own story.

In violence, we forget who we are

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.