We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

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

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Example is leadership.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Quitting is leading too.

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.

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

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

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.