Example is leadership.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Let my enemies devour each other.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.