You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.