Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it