Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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