You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

If you aren't practicing what you preach, how can, and why should, anyone trust you?

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

I try to transform a dream's magic into reality.

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What's the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.