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The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.

With foresight, and a willingness on the part of our people to face up to the vast responsibility which history has clearly placed upon our country, the difficulties I have outlined can and will be overcome.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people.

We have more will than wallet; but will is what we need.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself.

And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

Our mission is not punishment, but the rectification of wrong.