A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
A leader leads by example, not by force
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
