It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
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.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.