He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
We tend to get what we expect.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
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.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
