Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.