We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
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.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Let my enemies devour each other.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
Democracy is the road to socialism.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.