Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
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.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.