The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

God made the world from nothing, and if we can be nothing, then God can make something of us.