We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

Better die standing than live kneeling.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies' designs.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.