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

Information is the currency of democracy.

Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

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

The lady's not for turning.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

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.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

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

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

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

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

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

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

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.