Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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