Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

---

Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

---

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

---

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

---

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

---

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

---

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

---

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

---

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

---

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

---