I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.