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

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

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

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

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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