I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

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

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

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.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

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

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.