Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.