There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Quitting is leading too.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

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

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.