Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

I fight on. I fight to win.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.