An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
