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

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

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

A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

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.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.