Great causes and little men go ill together.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause that denies the need for such lectures. Avaunt, importuning world! Back to my cell.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.

A good cause and a good tongue: and yet money must carry it.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause.

When a just cause reaches its flood tide ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.