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.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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

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.

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

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

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.

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 conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

I fight on. I fight to win.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.