When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Let my enemies devour each other.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
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.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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.
