Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Don't fight forces, use them.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

A leader leads by example, not by force