Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
