Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

A leader leads by example, not by force

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

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

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

The lady's not for turning.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.