We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

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.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

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

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

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

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

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

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.