Category: Thought

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.”

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession.  I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”

“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”

“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.”

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”