No task, rightly done, is truly private. It is part of the world s work.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

The seed of revolution is repression.