I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

Freedom is not given - it is taken

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.  

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.