It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Justice is the insurance we have on our lives, and obedience is the premium we pay for it.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.