Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
The seed of revolution is repression.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.