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.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
The seed of revolution is repression.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Action expresses priorities.