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.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Quitting is leading too.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Information is the currency of democracy.