Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
