The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Emancipation from suffering is your birthright.

Whenever I'm sad, I just put on 'SpongeBob' and I cheer up.

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

True competence is based on one’s own ability to observe.

Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.

My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about.

If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?