Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.