A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.