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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?

Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

I don't want my children to have any kind of ego or entitlement because of what I do. I want them to be good people, and we fight every day so that they'll be that way.

My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.