Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
The lady's not for turning.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
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.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
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.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
