Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Quitting is leading too.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.