Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
