The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

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

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

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.