A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The seed of revolution is repression.
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.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
