Information is the currency of democracy.
The seed of revolution is repression.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
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.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down