The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

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

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Quitting is leading too.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

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.

I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

When everything has to be right, something isn't.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.