Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Don't fight forces, use them.

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.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

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

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

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Quitting is leading too.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

We tend to get what we expect.