Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

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.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.