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- That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
- Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883), Ain't I A Woman, a speech delivered in 1851
- From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
- Louis Blanc (1811 - 1882), The Organization of Work, 1840
- Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
- I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971), Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), New England Reformers, 1844
- A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
- The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
- Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Resolutions, 1803
- Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
- If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
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