Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.