[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.