Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.
Quitting is leading too.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
Votes do not fall from the trees like ripe plums. They have to be fought for.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
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.
Information is the currency of democracy.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Example is leadership.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind