Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

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

Action expresses priorities.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

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

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.