Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

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

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

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

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

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

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.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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.