Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.