I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

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

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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.

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

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

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

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

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.

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

To lead the people, walk behind them.