"Cowardice never saved anyone."
-- Imam Shamyl --

"Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness."
-- Imam Ghazali --

"It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come ..."
-- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) --

"Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless you love the truth, you can not know it."
-- Pascal --

"Every man dies but not every man really lives."
-- William Wallace --

"Beware of yourself for you are your own worst enemy."
-- Anonymous --

"If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves."
-- Theodore Roosevelt --

"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man is himself a knave."
-- George Berkeley --

"It's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself."
-- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) --

"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
-- William Penn --

"... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women -- especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it."
-- El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) --

"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world."
-- Thomas Carlyle --

“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.”

-- George Orwell --

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

-- Henry David Thoreau --

"It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices."

-- Roger Bacon --

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

-- Niels Bohr --

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

-- Plato --

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

-- Thomas Jefferson --

"If we don't learn to live together as brothers and sisters, we shall perish together as fools."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr. --

"Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."

-- Sir Winston Churchill --

"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."

-- Daniel O'Connell  --

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.  --

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."

-- Alexander Hamilton --

"Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin --

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

-- Thomas Jefferson --

"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

-- Henry David Thoreau --

"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."

-- Stephen Vincent Benét --

"Power always thinks...that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws."

-- John Adams --

"True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else."

-- Clarence Darrow --

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."

-- Henry David Thoreau --

"The tragedy of war is that it uses man’s best to do man’s worst."

-- Harry Emerson Fosdick --

"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject."

-- Marcus Aurelius --

"It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it only takes twenty seconds of war to destroy him."

-- King Baudouin I of Belgium --

"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero --

"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."

-- Marie Beyle --

"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."

-- James Bryce --

"No great dependence is to be placed on the eagerness of young soldiers for action...fighting is agreeable to those who are strangers to it."

-- Vegetius --

"Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right."

-- H.L. Mencken --

"I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die."

-- Mary Roberts Rinehart --

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

-- George Washington --

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."

-- Louis D. Brandeis --

"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

-- Voltaire --

"Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent."

-- Isaac Asimov --

"God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it."

-- Euripides --

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt --

"Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify."

-- Gerard K. O'Neill  --

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

-- James Madison --

"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."

-- Voltaire --

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

-- Albert Einstein --

"Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means."

-- Ronald Reagan --

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."

-- H. G. Wells --

"Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."

-- William Penn --

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."

-- Thomas Paine --

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.  Men will believe what they see."

-- Henry David Thoreau --

"It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in error."
-- Cicero --