Information is the currency of democracy.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

I fight on. I fight to win.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.