Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit instigate brutal life and death struggles destroy a society's tolerance and humanity and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison that he cannot trust a friend.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails they try to poison you. If this fails too the finish by loading honors on your head.

We establish no religion in this country nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Woes and wonders of Power that tonic hell synthesis of poison and panacea.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.