Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

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

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

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.