Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
