There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.