He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

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

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

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

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

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

We tend to get what we expect.

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 tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.