Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

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

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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

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

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

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Example is leadership.

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.

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

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

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.