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

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

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

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

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.

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.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

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

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

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

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.