Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.