Justice is not a matter of wealth or power, but of right and wrong.

True prosperity comes from providing opportunities for all people to succeed.

A society is only as strong as its commitment to justice.

The voice of the people is stronger than the voice of power.

The key to a thriving society is a government that reflects the values of its people.

In every age, the cry for justice has been the cry for equal rights.

Let us not be afraid of change, for it is the only constant.

Liberty is the greatest gift of God.

Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.

We can exterminate Ku Kluxism better by recognizing their honesty and teaching them that they are wrong.

In the end, the truth will have its day.

I am not a politician; I am a servant of the people.

The only way to deal with the enemy is to fight back, and to fight back with courage.

A corporation has no rights except those given it by law. It can exercise no power except that conferred upon it by the people through legislation, and the people should be as free to withhold as to give, public interest and not private advantage being the end in view.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

It is not the business of government to regulate the individual’s conduct in matters of personal preference.

A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Principles are eternal.

If you are not willing to stand behind our troops, then feel free to stand in front of them.

The United States has become the greatest nation in the world because of its faith in the common people.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread and its ships could fill the seas, but these nations are dead, and we must build upon a different foundation if we would avoid their fate.

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow.

What we need is not more government, but more effective government.

In the time of greatest peril, God has sent us the greatest blessing.

The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one’s country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed

The world has a way of making you work for everything you get.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

We shall not always be satisfied with the best that we can do. The ideal should always be before us.

The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

The first step in the direction of progress is the declaration of the people’s rights.

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The issue is not the money. It is the principle.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

The people who are the most easily influenced by fear are the most easily controlled.

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The DEMOCRATIC idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Real estate is the best investment for small savings. More money is made from the rise in real estate values than from all other causes combined.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.