You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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