Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
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.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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.
