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

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

For friendship, like freedom, must be tended.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

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.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

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

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

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?