“To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.”

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.