The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
We tend to get what we expect.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
