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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Information is the currency of democracy.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

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

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable