The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Information is the currency of democracy.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
