It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Quitting is leading too.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.