"A weak man is just by accident...." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.”

“I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.”

“History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.”

“The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.”

“Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.”

“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.”

“Every man is actually weak, and apparently strong. To himself, he seems weak; to others, formidable.”

“It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”

“The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.”