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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.