It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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.