Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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

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

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

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.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

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

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

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

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.