Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.