You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
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.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
