Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
