"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."

"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."

"Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out."

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."

"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."