A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. 

Little pools of water tend to become stagnant and useless, but if they are joined together to form a big lake, the atmosphere is cooled and there is universal benefit.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good. 

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The upright stand alone and fight while the conspirators need a group to dislodge them.

The best way to deal with an argument is to avoid entering into one.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.