The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

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.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.