Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
To lead the people, walk behind them.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
I'm not a member of any organized party, I'm a Democrat.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
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.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.