99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

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

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

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

We tend to get what we expect.

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

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Quitting is leading too.

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.

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.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.