It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.