"Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

“The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.”

“A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... The time is always right to do the right thing. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”

“Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.”

“A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.”

“The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.”

“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”