I didn't have a happy childhood.
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
The only thing about a man that is a man. . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
The times I've been most successful have been the product of hard work and focus, but there's also been an ease and flow to it that's unmistakable.
Things are getting much better, but I always wondered when I went to church on Sundays. I've always been one to. . . I'm not just a boxer.