Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Courage is grace under pressure.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Be that self which one truly is.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

The future ain't what it used to be.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.