The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.