Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
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 freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.