Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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.
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
Don't fight forces, use them.
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
