Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.