(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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 ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.