It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
Don't fight forces, use them.
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.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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.