"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."

"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task."

"When purpose is clear, every obstacle transforms into a stepping stone. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway."

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."