Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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.
Example is leadership.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The seed of revolution is repression.
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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.