Politics have no relation to morals.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
A leader leads by example, not by force
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
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.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
