The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

The more subtle a force is, the more effective it becomes. Love is the greatest force in the world.

The Natives in our hands proved to be most unreliable and obstinate. Without constant attention, they would as soon have dropped the wounded man as not, and th…

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

A close study of these books, and of history, demonstrates that there is no act of cruelty so appalling that it cannot be justified, or even mandated, by recou…

I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justif…

In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by p…