He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.