Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

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

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.

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.