The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
We tend to get what we expect.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
