Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.