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

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

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

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

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

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.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.