So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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

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

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

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Example is leadership.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

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.

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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

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

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

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.