Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
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.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
