Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
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.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
