If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
A leader leads by example, not by force
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.