Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Action expresses priorities.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

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

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

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

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Let my enemies devour each other.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.