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.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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.

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

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.