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

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.