Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

The lady's not for turning.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

We tend to get what we expect.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

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

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.