To lead the people, walk behind them.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
