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

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Don't fight forces, use them.

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

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.