Jacob LAWRENCE: I hope that when my life ends, I would have added a little beauty, perception, and quality for those who follow.

Benjamin LEE: The combined opposition cannot prevent us from advancing so long as we have the road to books and schools open to us.

Vladimir LENIN: One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Vladimir LENIN: Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Vladimir LENIN: Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir LENIN: Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Vladimir LENIN: Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Vladimir LENIN: A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Abraham LINCOLN: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham LINCOLN: Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham LINCOLN: The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Nat LOVE: Education meant the death of the institution of slavery in this country, and the slave owners took good care that their slaves got none of it.