Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Example is leadership.
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.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.