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.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

We tend to get what we expect.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

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

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

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

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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