“Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.”

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

Liberty without learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Courage, ne’er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

The secret of happiness is freedom and the secret of freedom is courage.

Three of the gravest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

But the prize for courage will surely be awarded most justly to those who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger.