A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

, the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

Our enemies leave our bodies for the crows and the wolves. Our friends bury us in secret graves.

Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.

Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.

What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.