We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
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.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.