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.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
