The fundamental principle of the Russian government has always been the autocratic ruler who combines all legislative and executive powers and disposes of all the nation's resources.

In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong you cannot be too conservative.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.