Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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.

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

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

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.