The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.

In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organization do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Our scientific powers have outrun our spiritual powers; we have guided missiles and mis-guided men.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Forgiveness is not an occasional habit, it is a permanent attitude

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

One is that a man doesn't want people to know he's rich. Another is that he doesn't want them to learn how he got that way.