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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.