“Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.”

A man who doesn’t think differently from his time and environment can’t grow beyond his time and environment.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

Victory is for those who can say “Victory is mine”. Success is for those who can begin saying “I will succeed” and say “I have succeeded” in the end.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

Nations which don’t find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

Our true mentor in life is science.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.

The future is in the skies.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

I hope you give freely to yourself all the love, that the world told you, you have to fight for.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.