Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

We tend to get what we expect.

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.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.