The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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.

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

The lady's not for turning.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

Action expresses priorities.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

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

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

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

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

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.