“We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.”

“pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We,their own lords, quarrel among ourselves, and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.”

“Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.”

“By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.”

“Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves”