Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
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.
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.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
