You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

To be turned from one’s course by men’s opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold office.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.