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

Information is the currency of democracy.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Action expresses priorities.

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.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

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