“When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.”

“The death sentence is a barbaric act.”

“In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.”

“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”

“Men come and men go, I have come and I will go when my time comes”

“Let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”

“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm”

“Individuals score points, but teams win games.”

“It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.”

“The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”

“I have been long a sleeper; but I trustMy absence doth neglect no great designWhich by my presence might have been concluded.”

“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”

“When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.”

“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.”

“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”

“If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.”

“When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida to go on vacation, you had to plan to drive all the way through, because you couldn't stop in a hotel all the way through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We can't even fathom such a thing now, can we?”

“The breach of customIs breach of all.”

“Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.”

“What is the city but the people?”

“Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.”

“I am wealthy in my friends.”

“If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.”