Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

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

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

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

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.

In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.