A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph..

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld..

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives..

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war..

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a ….

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy..

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered..

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive res….

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundant….

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing..

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life….

If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light..

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around..

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat..

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth..

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit..

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activiti….

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the….

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves..

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live..

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the trium….