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

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

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.