A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.