If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

We tend to get what we expect.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The seed of revolution is repression.