A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.