The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?