“It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.”

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.

The courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior. The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation.

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same.

We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

I was clear about the fact that my first film should be ‘big,’ since it’s the start of your whole career graph.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.