“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”