Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Information is the currency of democracy.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker