Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

The lady's not for turning.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

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.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.