The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent