The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Action expresses priorities.

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

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

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

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

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.