The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

A leader leads by example, not by force

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.