You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Quitting is leading too.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.