I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
My version of "Georgia" became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.