A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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.