A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

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.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

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