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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

We tend to get what we expect.