If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

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

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.

I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.