Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
The lady's not for turning.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.