It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

More than an end to war we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.

Truth always originates in a minority of one and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is and tell it like it is to find the truth to speak the truth and to live the truth.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful to begin to love yourself value yourself. And that's political in its most profound way.

When virtue is lost benevolence appears when benevolence is lost right conduct appears when right conduct is lost expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.