They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

My only fixed truth is a belief in people, a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act freely and the power to control their own destinies, they'll generally reach the right decisions.

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.

Never let a crisis go to waste

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.