You have the right to offend me.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

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.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.