Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

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.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.