Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.