There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.