Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The seed of revolution is repression.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Information is the currency of democracy.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.