For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

I fight on. I fight to win.

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

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.