A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
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.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.