A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
The lady's not for turning.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
Example is leadership.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
