Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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