To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

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.

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

The seed of revolution is repression.