Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

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.

Never trust your colleagues. Work politics are founded by them.

Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.

Choose to be the best version of you.

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.

We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

Liberace was Elton John and Lady Gaga before they even dreamed of it.

Passion is the soul of youth.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

God never asks us to give what we do not have . . . But he cannot use what we will not give.