We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Example is leadership.

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

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

We tend to get what we expect.