In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.