Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Information is the currency of democracy.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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

How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.