Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

A leader leads by example, not by force

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.