Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
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.
Appearances matter and remember to smile.
