In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Quitting is leading too.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
A leader leads by example, not by force
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Politics have no relation to morals.
I fight on. I fight to win.