Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Action expresses priorities.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.