I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

It is a socialist idea making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.