Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
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.
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.
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.