The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.

I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.