To lead the people, walk behind them.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

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

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

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.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.