We tend to get what we expect.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Information is the currency of democracy.

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.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.

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.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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

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

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

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

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