It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
