Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.