... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

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.

My ancestors were conquerors, though now they are heroes in our history." Glancing at Amos, he said, "But we wrote the history.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

I have an incredibly supportive husband and family and an incredibly well-adjusted daughter.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

A just system must generate its own support.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.