The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
I fight on. I fight to win.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.