Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

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.

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.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.

You cannot forever escape from the storm

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

Tis a mad world, my masters.

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

Our motto is whenever you make a mistake, do it twice.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.