Politics have no relation to morals.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Quitting is leading too.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.