Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

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.