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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

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.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.