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.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
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.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Quitting is leading too.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
When everything has to be right, something isn't.
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.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
