In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

I fight on. I fight to win.

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.