The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
The lady's not for turning.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.