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

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.