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.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Example is leadership.
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.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
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.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Action expresses priorities.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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.
A leader leads by example, not by force
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
