People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. it violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
One and god make a majority.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.