The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, are automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Shame is the mental discomfort with a physcial situation.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. 

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.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.