“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.”

“We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.”

“If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.”

“We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction”

“Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.”