If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.