The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Action expresses priorities.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest