Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
How do you tell a Communist? Well, its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
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.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
