The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

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.

Just one moment of madnessCan rescind a lifetime of moments.Lord Heikan

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.

Many of the left thinkers that really matter to me - that formed a big part of my thinking about politics and art - emphasize how capitalism is a totality, how there's no escape from it, no outside.

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!

Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.

I think it is important for everybody to bring their spending habits into line with their ideals.