It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Information is the currency of democracy.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

I fight on. I fight to win.

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

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

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.