The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 

Compromise is the easy option adopted by the inhabitants of the comfort zone.

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

life loses half its interest if there is no struggle, if there are no risk to be taken.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I think technology really increase human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.