I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.