The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.

If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.