A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

The lady's not for turning.

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.