Prosperity has its duties as well as its rights.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

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

The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Freedom exists not to do what you like but to have the right to do what you ought.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.