If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.