The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
The seed of revolution is repression.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
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.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I am not an Athenian nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
We tend to get what we expect.