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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Example is leadership.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

We tend to get what we expect.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.