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

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

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

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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

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

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Action expresses priorities.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.