This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Action expresses priorities.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Politics have no relation to morals.