A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

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