Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".