You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.