I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

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.