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.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
The seed of revolution is repression.