Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

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

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

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

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

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.

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

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.