If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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.

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

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

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

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The lady's not for turning.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.