“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors.

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

If I don’t get along with Democrats, I’m sort of, like, out of business.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

India is a country that shares the values of freedom, democracy, basic human rights and the rule of law with the United States and Japan.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy.