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

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

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

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Information is the currency of democracy.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.