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

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

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

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

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.