When everything has to be right, something isn't.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
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.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.