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

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Let my enemies devour each other.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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