The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.