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

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Don't fight forces, use them.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

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

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

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

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down