"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

'The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.'

"Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it"

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

"If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war."

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people"

"As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities."