It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.