Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Culture makes all men gentle.