The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.