Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

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

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

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

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

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.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

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

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.