A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
A leader leads by example, not by force
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.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
We tend to get what we expect.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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.
