Charity begins at home.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

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.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

The longer I live, the more deeply l learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

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

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

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

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.