They can kill the dreamer, but they can never kill the dream.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

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

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most impressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be saturated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

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

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!

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

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.

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.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air—by not having enough of it.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.