Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.