Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Quitting is leading too.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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.

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

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.