Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Information is the currency of democracy.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
