There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Between two evils I always pick the one I never tried before.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.

I suffered evils but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and that cure is freedom.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils to surrender to them our freedom in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.