Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
We tend to get what we expect.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.