Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
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.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
