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.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
