Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The seed of revolution is repression.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

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

Quitting is leading too.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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