I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Don't fight forces, use them.

The seed of revolution is repression.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.