It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of 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.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
