The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.

Has justice ever grown in the soil of absolute power? Has not justice always come from the ... heart and spirit of men who resist power?

Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.