“Men will not give up their privilege of helplessness without a struggle.”

“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”

“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea offree will would be helpless without incongruity.”

“When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love. ”