“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free, into that heaven of freedom, let my country awake.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.