I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.