Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

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

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

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

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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

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.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

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.

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.