"Character, not circumstances, makes the man. It is more important that we be prepared for voting than that we vote, m…"

"In working out our destiny, while the main burden and center of activity must be with us, we shall need in a large me…"

"I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else."

"There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life."

"The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do."

"Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human…"

"In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man i…"

"There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up."

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

"Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of ma…"