A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
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.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
