Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

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

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

The seed of revolution is repression.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.