We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

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

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.