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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

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.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

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.

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

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

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

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

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