Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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.

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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.