"We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom"

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism"

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home"

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war"

"We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us"

"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom"

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"