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The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.

Man should make an art of thinking.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business: what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness.

Nearly all of us recognize that as intricacies of human relationships increase, so power to govern them also must increase--power to stop evil; power to do good.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.

Hence a sound and comprehensive policy should embrace not less the distant future than the urgent present.

The moral which I gained from the dialogue was the power of truth over the conscience of even a slaveholder.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

The strength of our determination was about to be fully tested.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

At times we were almost disposed to give up, and try to content ourselves with our wretched lot; at others, we were firm and unbending in our determination to go.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man

It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

The hardships and dangers involved in the struggle give strength and toughness to the character, and enable it to stand firm in storm as well as in sunshine.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first.