Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
I'm not hard, I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
