A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
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.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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.
Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
