Who pays a debt creates capital.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

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

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Liberty only survives when it is defended.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely…for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly two be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.