The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
The seed of revolution is repression.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
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.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.