It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I fight on. I fight to win.
Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are
We tend to get what we expect.
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.
