We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

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

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.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

As government expands, liberty contracts.