The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Action expresses priorities.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

False leaders create followers by lying.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.