Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

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.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

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

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

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

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

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.