The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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

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

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

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.