Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.