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

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

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

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

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

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

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

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.