To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Complacence among the masses may lead to subjugation bythe leaders.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

God is everywhere.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.