Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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.

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.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

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.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.