Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.