Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

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

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

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

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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