We tend to get what we expect.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.