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The moment there is doubt about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Speak if it only improves upon the silence.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

President means chief servant.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.

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