Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of anyone.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.

Unless you believe you will not understand.

All limitations are self-imposed.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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 have more machinery of government that is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

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.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

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

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

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

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.