A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men likehimself struggle, with unflagging, pathetic hope, toward better things.... He is a guide, a counselor, a mentor, a servant, a friend of mankind.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

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?

Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.