The cause of liberty

The cause of liberty
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
  

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Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.
If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.
The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.