All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I must have read every issue of ‚Punch‘ published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour – that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like ‚Three Men in a Boat.‘

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‚President Can’t Swim.‘

People’s blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

Knowledge is power.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!