Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

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

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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

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

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

The lady's not for turning.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.