Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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.

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

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.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.