Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

I fight on. I fight to win.

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.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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.