Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Let my enemies devour each other.

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

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.