The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

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.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Let my enemies devour each other.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.