“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; for you will never go any higher than you think.”
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
“Without tact you can learn nothing.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.”
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
“There is no education like adversity.”
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
“The condition of the working class is the real foundation of the political state.”
“The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.”
“What each individual can do is dependent on the conditions given by history.”
“Freedom is the insight into necessity.”
“The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.”
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
“The state is not abolished—it withers away.”
“Working men of all countries, unite!”
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
“There has never been a country so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”