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

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

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.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.