If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
There never Was a Good War or a Bad Peace.
The liar’s punishment is not the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.