In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

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

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.