When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.

Don't fight forces, use them.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

Loyalty to country always. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.