Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

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

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

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.