The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.