Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

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

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.