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

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

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

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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