If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

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.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

We tend to get what we expect.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.