I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
The seed of revolution is repression.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
