We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

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.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.