Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

Sometimes people have sympathized with me because long years of my life were spent in jail and in exile. Well, those years ... were a mixed experience. I hated them because they separated me from the dearest thing in the world-the struggle of my people for rebirth. At the same time, they were a blessing because I had what is so rare in this world-the opportunity of thinking about basic issues, the opportunity of examining afresh the beliefs I held.

Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death!

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously...

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.