I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.