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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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.

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

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

The lady's not for turning.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.