The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

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

A leader leads by example, not by force

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Let my enemies devour each other.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.