There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

People, your Government has returned to you!

This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique... something truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.