Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.

- Muriel Lester

a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.

- Muriel Lester

Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in pra…

- Muriel Lester

Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist…

- Muriel Lester

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

- Muriel Lester

Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the only permanent way …

- Muriel Lester

It is a fact, however, that there is no rest for the wicked.

- Muriel Lester

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

- Muriel Lester

once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happ…

- Muriel Lester