Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

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.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.