Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

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

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Quitting is leading too.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

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.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.