"In doing what we ought we deserve..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”

“When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.”

“You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”

“With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.”

“A true patriot will defend his country from its government.”

“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”

“Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.”

“The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.”