A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

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

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

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.

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

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

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

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.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.