Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

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.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

Ask ourselves: How can we serve, nurture and sustain the planet and its people in our business ventures?

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

I have three kids, one of each.

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

What you do as president has consequences.