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

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Quitting is leading too.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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

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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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

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