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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

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

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.

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

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

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Let my enemies devour each other.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

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

The lady's not for turning.

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

We tend to get what we expect.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.