Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
