The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

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.

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.

Your first 10, 000 photographs are your worst.

History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair.

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.