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

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

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Let my enemies devour each other.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.