There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

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

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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.

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.