Politics have no relation to morals.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

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.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

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