We welcome the scrutiny of the world - because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Bigotry tries to keep teeth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

God is everywhere.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. 

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. 

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.