Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A leader leads by example, not by force
Any cook should be able to run the country.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
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 fight on. I fight to win.