We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

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

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

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

Information is the currency of democracy.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

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

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.