He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

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

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

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

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

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

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

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Action expresses priorities.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Appearances matter and remember to smile.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.