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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.