The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Quitting is leading too.
