Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defence.

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Racial discrimination is not a permissible solution... that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.