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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.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.

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

The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.

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 place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

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

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

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

Adventures are to those to whom they are most unexpected

As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

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

It would be neither fitting nor efficacious for this Government to undertake to draw up unilaterally a program designed to place Europe on its feet economically. This is the business of the Europeans.

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?

A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.

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