Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
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.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
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.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.