Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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.
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.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.