You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
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.
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
I fight on. I fight to win.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
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.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
