War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.
Only peace between equals can last.
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
Freedom exists only where the people take care of the government.
The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.
One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.
It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.
The princes among us are those who forget themselves and serve others.
No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.
The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.
We didn’t have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren’t counted as human beings.
I am sorry for those that disagree with me because I know that they are wrong.
I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, ‘A free field and no favor.’
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom – is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.