Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
