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

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

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

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

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.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves 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.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.