Every man for himself and God for us all.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

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.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

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

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.