Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

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.

Sin, in its simplest definition, is the misuse or abuse of anything GOD created.

Knowledge is your shield

Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

Everything is true, and nothing is true!

Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

God is your very being. So the first thing is, don't think about enlightenment as a goal.