“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

The cost of freedom is always high.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

Sincerity is always subject to proof.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

The word ‘arrested,’ this is semantics. This was all arranged in advance. I was voluntarily processed.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.

A sense of humor is helpful for those who would advance social change.