Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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

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

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

We tend to get what we expect.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

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.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

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

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

I fight on. I fight to win.