We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
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.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Action expresses priorities.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.