Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
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.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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 Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
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.
