It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

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

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

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

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

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.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.