All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

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

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

No garden is without its weeds.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

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

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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

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

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

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.

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

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.