We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

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.

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."