The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Politics have no relation to morals.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.