The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
We tend to get what we expect.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Any cook should be able to run the country.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
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.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.