Action expresses priorities.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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.
The seed of revolution is repression.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
