Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

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.

For every departed glory there is always a new discovery

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?