If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.