What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Disagreement is something normal.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

I love being in a courtroom.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.