This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

The seed of revolution is repression.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

A leader leads by example, not by force

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.