Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Politics have no relation to morals.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
The seed of revolution is repression.