The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

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.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Politics have no relation to morals.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.