In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
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.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give 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.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
