We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.