“Never murder a man when he’s busy committing suicide.”

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Remember that God ordained that I should be the next president of the United States. Neither you nor any other mortal or mortals could have prevented this.

America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of the Holy Scripture.

There is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

Battles are won by men. Wars are won by strategists.

A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.