Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.