A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes