We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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.

Don't fight forces, use them.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

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

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.