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

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.

I fight on. I fight to win.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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.

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

Don't fight forces, use them.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

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.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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

Action expresses priorities.