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

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

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

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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.

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

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.