Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

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.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

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.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

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.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. 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.