Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

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

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.