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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

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

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

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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

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