It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

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.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Hence 'the overthrow of government' as a coercive power, thereby denying God in another form.

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

(...) when a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.