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

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

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

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

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.