Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which enemies cannot destroy.

The price that America must pay for the continued oppression of the Negro and other minority groups is the price of its own destruction.

Many people have been sceptical of our capacity to realise the ideal of a rainbow nation. It is true that South Africa was often brought to the brink of destruction because of differences.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

If the spirit of God is not in us, and if we will not prepare to give all that we have and all that we are to preserve Christian civilization in our land, we shall go to destruction.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.