Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

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

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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.

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

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.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

We tend to get what we expect.

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

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.