Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees
The seed of revolution is repression.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
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.
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
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.
