The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

Quitting is leading too.

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

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

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

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

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

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

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.