We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

The people turn to a benevolent rule as water flows downwards, and as wild beasts fly to the wilderness.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...