Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

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

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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

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

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front

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

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