Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

There is some solution to every problem. No lock was ever made without keys.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Agreed—life is a gamble. But that is no reason for you to become a gambler.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. 

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does become tainted.

 Plan for the future but don’t starve yourself to death in the process.