I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
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.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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.
