The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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.

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.

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

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.