Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.