God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
The lady's not for turning.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
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.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
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.