The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.

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.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

Respect. Have it not only for others, but also for yourself.

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

Where there's life there's hope, and need of vittles.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

If you see a good fight, get in it and fight to win it!

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

I cannot do it without comp[u]ters.