"If we cannot secure all our rights,..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.”

“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.”

“The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.”

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

“If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.”

“I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.”

“For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will be praised by everybody because the vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes of it; and in the world there are only the vulgar, for the few find a place there only when the many have no ground to rest on.”

“It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.”

“We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.”