Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
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No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
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It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
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.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.
Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.
There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.
