There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
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.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.