Society and the World

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

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

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of our fathers as preserving the land of our children.

Patriotism is not so much protecting the land of our fathers as preserving the land of our children.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

The function of freedom is to free somebody else.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.