Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.