Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

A leader leads by example, not by force

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.