As government expands, liberty contracts.

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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

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

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

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Example is leadership.

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.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

To lead the people, walk behind them.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

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

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

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

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

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.