“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”

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.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Strength isn’t always shown in what you can hold on to, sometimes it’s shown in what you can let go of.

Surely again, to heal men’s wounds by music’s spell.

You just have to make a choice to just refuse to be involved with things that could get you in trouble.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.