Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

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.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

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

Let my enemies devour each other.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

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

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

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

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.