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.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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