In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Information is the currency of democracy.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.