Power concedes nothing without a demand.

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 a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

You're a crazy woman, looking for an honest liar."Kyra to Rey (Reyes)

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

You have to give credit where credit is due.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds.