"There is a material advancement; we desire..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Philosophy is the microscope of thought.”

“I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”

“That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.”

“I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.”

“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.”

“Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.”

“To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.”

“The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious.”