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.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
The seed of revolution is repression.
As government expands, liberty contracts.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
