I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
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 more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
