When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.