How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
