I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.