You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Information is the currency of democracy.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.