An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.