Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
The lady's not for turning.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
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.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Example is leadership.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
