In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

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.

No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

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

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

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

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

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

A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

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

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.

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.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.