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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

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

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.