The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
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.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.
Think thousands time before taking a decision but - after taking decision never turn back even if you get thousands difficulties.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
The seed of revolution is repression.
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.