Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.