You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Politics have no relation to morals.
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.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.