A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring can be built on violence.
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
God has no religion.
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the fault of others.
Action expresses priorities.