Frederick Douglass - Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

Frederick Douglass - The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass - I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Benjamin Franklin - It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Elie Wiesel - Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Matt Haig - Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.

Kevin Bales - Slavery is theft—theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Harriet Tubman - Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

Douglass North - Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

Frederick the Great - An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick Reines - I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Adam Smith - Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Lillian Hellman - Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Gilbert K. Chesterton - The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the man makes for himself and by himself.

Harold MacMillan - A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.