The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Avoid all evil, practice all good, and purify your mind from impurities. This is the teaching of all Buddhas.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurptions.

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

Cowardice askes the question:"Is it safe"? Expediency asks the question:"Is it politic"? Vanity asks the question:"Is it popular?"But conscience asks the question:"Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one what is right.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.