A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.

High society is for those who have stopped working and no longer have anything important to do.